Word: attacker
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...draft board last year after he turned his draft card in to the Justice Department. At least 18 other suits that question the Selective Service System's power to use the draft as punishment for antiwar activities are currently pending in federal courts. Also under attack this year are capital-punishment laws, a federal.law requiring marijuana dealers to register with the Government and an Arkansas "monkey" law that forbids the teaching of evolution in the schools of that state...
...first Mailer was dismayed at McCarthy's failure to attack Humphrey in debate before the California delegation. Then he came to realize that the Senator was "proceeding on the logic of the saint, as if the first desire of the ONE devil might be to make you the instrument of your own will. God would judge the importance of the event, not man, and God would give the tongue to speak, if tongue was the organ to be manifested. Everything in McCarthy's manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint...
Died. Francis Biddle, 82, Attorney General from 1941 to 1945 and U.S. judge at the 1945-46 Nurnberg war-crimes trials; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass. An able and wealthy lawyer who traced his ancestry to the nation's first Attorney General, Civil Libertarian Biddle often objected to the decisions of the times-as when thousands of Japanese nationals were interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He felt no qualms, however, in dealing with eight Nazi agents smuggled into the country in 1942, and demanded stiff sentences (six were executed). At Nurnberg, he staunchly defended...
...Theirs not to make reply,/Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die." It is necessary to remind oneself these days that Tennyson wrote those lines with a straight face. For the poet laureate, the gallant but futile attack at Balaclava was a testimony to human courage. Aided by the hindsight of history, Director Tony Richardson sees the event in another light. His film version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, based in part on Cecil Woodham-Smith's brilliant study, The Reason Why, is a polemical attack on the futility...
...seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack, the atmosphere is already painfully tense. The challenge for the author is to keep everybody's emotions-his own, his protagonists' and the reader's-from getting out of control...